It's not that Rachel was asleep, she was just happy reading Pride and Prejudice in her daggy pyjamas. She found that was the best book to take her mind off of things as she had to concentrate so hard on what it all meant. A knock on the door broke the silence. She opened it slowly on the off chance that it was a kidnapper and was relieved and confused to see that it was Finn, "Hey, what are you-…"

He grabbed her in his arms and kissed her, and without hesitation, she jumped up and wrapped her legs around him, kissing him harder. They both stumbled into the bedroom and he lay her down on the bed. He looked at her, trying to catch her breath – she was so beautiful.

"Finn, why are you stopping?" she asked, panting, "is something wrong?"

"I know that I shouldn't be here. But I can't be at home Rachel, I just can't,"

"Ok, Finn its fine, you can stay here," she said, smiling. She sat up and kissed him on the cheek, "but if you want to stay here, you have to tell me what's wrong,"

"It's just…Quinn knows that she was rude today. And her way of apologising is…a little different to the average 'I'm sorry' speech,"

"Oh my God. You slept with her…" said Rachel, backing away from the bed, "you men! Have you no self-control? "'

"You women! You always come to conclusions before we've even finished what we have to say!"

Rachel didn't want to laugh, she was supposed to be angry with him, but she couldn't help it. He was just so adorable. Even when he was frustrated.

"I didn't sleep with her Rachel. She tried…she tried but I just kept thinking of you and then I realised why I couldn't and it all made sense. I know you think that your idea will work but I'm just going to tell Quinn the truth, ok?"

"…I love you too Finn,"

He smiled, somehow, through all his babbling, she had figured out what he was really trying to say. She sat back down on the bed next to him and held his hand, "tomorrow, we'll do it your way," she promised.

He looked down at their hands, perfectly intertwined, "so how come we can hold hands now?" he asked.

"Because we both feel the same way. Now I don't see white, I just feel some tingling,"

He looked up into her big brown eyes and hugged her. They were going to be together. He felt whole, for the first time in a long time and he knew what was going to happen next.

Breathing in and out, he had never looked cuter. Rachel wondered what he was dreaming about. His eyes slowly began to open and as he became familiar with his surroundings he turned over to see Rachel, smiling at him.

"Good morning!" she said, happily.

"With you here, it's already better than 'good'," he replied, turning over and resting his head just under her neck.

"You have big words to teach today, Mr Hudson…" Rachel didn't want him to leave, but he was a teacher, and that meant early mornings but early returns.

Finn looked at the time and when he saw that he only had 20 minutes to get ready and get to the school he ran out of the bed and into the bathroom, "can I use your shower, babe?"

He had called her babe. And it felt perfect, "sure! I'll make you some breakfast so you can eat quickly when you get out,"

Rachel went off to the kitchen to make him some scrambled eggs. Everything was going so great – then there was a knock at the door.

"Who the hell could that be?" Rachel asked herself as she walked towards her front door. She opened it slowly and was shocked to see Quinn standing there.

"He's here isn't he? I know he is! I saw how you two were looking at each other at the restaurant!" screamed Quinn as she barged inside, "who's in the shower, huh?"

"Quinn I think you should leave, you can't just barge in like this!"

The shower turned off and out emerged Finn in nothing but a towel to see his fiancé…and his girlfriend…things couldn't get any worse.

"Quinn! Hey….look, nothing happened, alright?" he said, trying not to hurt her.

"What do you mean nothing happened?" asked Rachel

"Oh who am I supposed to believe, huh? My fiancé or his whore?" screamed Quinn.

"Babe, I promise – can't we just talk about this?" Finn said as he ran over to Quinn.

He called her babe. Suddenly him speaking those words to Rachel only minutes ago didn't feel so special anymore. Why was he doing this? Then Rachel realised – he was scared. He didn't want to hurt either of them.

"This is why we should have done it my way," stated Rachel as she stormed back into her bedroom, leaving Finns clothes outside the door.

i didnt know if you guys wanted smuttiness, i wrote two versions and decided to go with the 'clean' one aha. sorry if i dissapointed you!